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What is an antimacassar?

What is an antimacassar? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa, originally to prevent them from being soiled by macassar oil.
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I want you to know Mr. Brown, that I don't take off my antimacassar for just anyone.
And you soon get tired of a dove coo-ing in your ear when your antimacassar is an inch deep in bird droppings.
Rural laconics like Will Rogers or George Gobel were always curios of another age, like the antimacassar.
So she laid the doll on the sofa, and covered it with an antimacassar, to sleep.
But Ed's removal of his controversial antimacassar is indicative of the piety that has overwhelmed the political sphere now that the good old days have turned sour.
Then Charles put his feet in an antimacassar and dragged it to the floor.

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